Getting ready with your bridesmaids is a fun start to your amazing wedding day! Whether you’re waking up together from a hotel slumber party the night before or you’re meeting at the bridal room of your venue to get gussied up, a fun and girly ambiance sets the tone for your day.
Most likely, you and your gals will get ready together with a photographer and maybe even the videographer with you to document this special time. Be yourselves! Laugh! Hug! Toast! These are the great moments that are captured to last as memories for years to come.
You might want to bring some bubbly with you! Most importantly, it will relax you because it’s likely you’ll have wedding day butterflies out of excitement. Also, there’s nothing like the sound of popping a bottle of Champagne and hearing the girly squeals of “Cheeeeeeers!” as you toast to your very near nuptials. Just make sure to have your lip color ready to reapply!
You might also want to gift your bridesmaids with a getting-ready outfit that looks great in pictures and, ideally, they can wear again! Matching robes with each girl’s embroidered monogram, coordinating track suits, and even fun t-shirts are spirited threads for the morning of the wedding. The only reason to think twice about t-shirts is the hair and makeup factor: when the bridesmaid goes to change into her dress and she’s already had her hair and makeup done, she may risk some damage. Therefore, it’s highly recommended you save the t-shirts for another bridal event and instead gift a getting-ready outfit that can wrap around, unbottom, or unzip.
Posed and candid shots are fun! You can all dog pile onto the bed in the hotel room for a group shot, which is really sweet for a bride and bridesmaids if they all know each other well and have spent a lot of time together like in a sorority house or weekend nights in high school. Candid shots of makeup applications, dress zipping, and bouquet holding are all wonderful moments to show the bond you and your ladies have during this portion of your milestone.
If your mom is close with your gal pals, it might be cute to have her join the party, too! Generations of your most favorite women all together will make your getting ready experience sentimental. I’ve seen wonderful photos of all the bride’s girlfriends and her mom and grandma hugging and supporting the bride as she enjoys the last few hours before she becomes a Mrs.
Your getting-ready morning shouldn’t make you feel stressed or anxious. Just relax, smile, enjoy the pampering and know that with your favorite friends and family, you’re on your way to the best moments of your life!
